Cuban president Miguel Diaz-Canel reiterated Thursday that the island’s cooperation in the field of health will never be mercantile, and will always be guided by the values ​​of humanism, solidarity and internationalism.

Cuba is set to end the year with the lowest maternal-infant mortality rate in its history. The current figure stands at 3.9 for every 1,000 live births, according to an official source speaking before the second period of ordinary sessions of the Cuban Parliament’s ninth legislature.

Ambulatory peritoneal dialysis is a treatment for patients with chronic kidney failure in Holguín. This procedure, practiced in the "Lucía Iñiguez Landín" hospital since 2013, contributes to the purification of the kidney by using the membrane of the abdomen as a kind of natural filter, which prolongs the survival of patients.

More than 600 doctors from Holguín province have returned to their homes since the Cuban Ministry of Public Health decided to withdraw from the More Doctors program in Brazil, due to the hostile attitude of the president-elect, Jair Bolsonaro.